I can become stronger by paying salaries. I have one billion employees!

Chapter 134 Downloads Exceed 1000 Million, Factory Treatment (Seeking Monthly Tickets)

On the second day of the Dragon Boat Festival, Lashou.com submitted its IPO prospectus to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, planning to raise 1 million US dollars.

Ali announced that Yitao.com would operate independently and add a price comparison search function. Since it could not compete with FoxTao in the field of brand sales, it instead strengthened its own tool attributes.

Subsequently, Lei Yijun announced the research and development progress of Xiaomi mobile phones for the first time, saying that the first model will be released in August.

Zhang Xuhao, who was far away in Shanghai, quickly expanded his team after receiving US$100 million in financing from Sands Venture Capital, and expanded his business from the Jiaotong University campus to the surrounding areas.

The increasingly fierce competition in the group buying industry made Zhang Xuhao realize that he must seize more market share in the food delivery sector before other Internet giants enter the market.

However, at this time, mainstream domestic venture capital institutions are not optimistic about the profit model of food delivery.

Marketing, rider recruitment, technology research and development, and merchant management all require a large amount of capital investment, and the profits of merchants and users are difficult to cover the costs.

It is destined to be in a loss-making state for a long time!
After spending 100 million US dollars, Sands Venture Capital regretted it not long after. The money was only enough for Zhang Xuhao to upgrade the website to version 2.0 and initially enter the white-collar market.

As of early June, the website had only 30,000 registered users and less than 4000 orders per day.

This is why Chen Yansen is not in a hurry to start the food delivery business: firstly, the cost of cultivating the market and users is too high; secondly, the popularity of smartphones is low and 4G networks have not yet been launched.

Although 3G networks have a trend of increasing speed and decreasing prices, traffic prices are still high.

In the future, Zhang Xuhao spent more than one billion yuan to develop the market, but then he faced his lifelong rival - Meituan Takeout.

Relying on tens of thousands of ground-based sales forces, Wang Xin defeated Ele.me step by step and forced the market leader to become the second largest.

However, in this life, whether Wang Xin can stand out from the Thousand Regiments War is still unknown.

After all, the first half of the year is almost over, and Meituan's market share has not yet ranked among the top three, and it is being suppressed by Juhuasuan, Lashou, Gaopeng and Nuomi.com.

Following closely behind are WoWotuan, 58tuangou, Ftuan and Dianping, as well as FoxTao's disruption.

Even though Meituan launched the thoughtful service of "expired refund" in a timely manner, it failed to make much splash in the industry.

Because Lashou, Gaopeng and Nuomi.com immediately followed suit, Meituan’s special service became the industry standard.

On June 8, Chen Yansen moved Orange Technology to Zhuxianzhuang Science and Technology Park. The Aurora System's R&D team was on the second floor, and the third floor was a public office area for more than a dozen hardware and industrial design engineers.

There were only a few flower baskets sent by the property management at the door, and no firecrackers were set off to celebrate. The moving process was very low-key.

But Chen Yansen was much more high-profile online. He added a pop-up advertisement on the FoxTao homepage and announced the launch of the Aurora system test version.

At the same time, on Orange Technology’s official website, Orange Community, third-party application stores and developer forums, posters are either pinned to the top or heavy investment is made.

After downloading and installing the Aurora system, FoxTao users can also receive random red envelopes ranging from 3 to 88 yuan.

If you find any system function defects, please submit them in the feedback section of the Orange Community. Once adopted, you will receive a reward ranging from 1000 to 10000 yuan.

This is different from when FoxTao was launched. At that time, Chen Yansen only had 500,000 or 600,000 yuan in his hand and could only use some tricks.

Now that we have sufficient funds, we can start spending money directly.

Fox Tao, which has 320 million daily active users, saw 28 new downloads on the same day.

For Chen Yansen, this cost is only a few hundred thousand yuan, which is not as expensive as the resources of Wandoujia, App Store and 360 Mobile Assistant.

On the day the Aurora system was launched, the number of downloads across all channels reached 89!
The number Chen Yansen announced on Weibo is 100 million!
This caused a sensation in the industry. People like Chen Yansen who were willing to invest money and had strong traffic from their own websites had obvious advantages in the product launch phase.

The next day, the total number of downloads across all channels reached 141 million!
On the third day, the total number of downloads across all channels reached 117 million!
On the fourth day, the total number of downloads across all channels reached 93!
On the fifth day, the total number of downloads across all channels reached 84!
On the sixth day, the total number of downloads across all channels reached 73!
On the seventh day, the total number of downloads across all channels reached 52!
In just one week, Aurora OS (Aurora System) has been downloaded a total of 649 million times. According to the duplicate data of the number of launches, page views, and user stay time, the usage is 780 million.

This is because many users' installation packages are shared with them by classmates, friends or relatives, and are not included in the statistics of various channels.

As usage increases, more and more bugs are exposed.

For example, when dialing a number from a text message, the function will suddenly crash; when playing music, the song information will not be displayed on the lock screen; when modifying permissions, the confirmation button will fail, etc.
Various minor problems occurred frequently, and Wang Teng could only spend the whole day in the Orange Community to collect user feedback.

A week later, Aurora OS was updated to version 1.01, patching dozens of minor bugs at once.

Those users who have updated their mobile phone systems to Aurora system have found that the memory cleaning function of Aurora system is very powerful.

Users can manually clear the cache with one click, or authorize the system to classify cache and App junk files into three categories: new generation, old generation and metaspace data according to period and frequency of use, and clean them every 30 minutes.

This is the generational garbage collection algorithm that Chen Yansen mentioned to Wang Teng before!

It greatly alleviates the problems of insufficient memory and phone lag for users!
Upon learning the news, Lei Yijun immediately asked the people in the R&D center to use decompilation tools to convert the binary code of Aurora OS into pseudocode and analyze the calling logic of the memory management module.

However, feedback soon came in that the Aurora OS code obfuscated key class and method names, making decompilation much more difficult. The core memory partition ratio, cleanup trigger conditions, and concurrent processing methods were all difficult to reproduce.

"Is this kid so powerful?"

Lei Yijun sat in the office and looked at Lin Bing and asked.

Although he has more than 20 years of programming experience, his work has shifted to management in recent years. He only thinks that the garbage cleaning function of Aurora OS is very useful, but he is not sure about the difficulty of implementing the code.

"That's amazing! Although our MIUI system has also made some optimizations in memory management and garbage collection, the actual effect is far inferior to Aurora OS."

Lin Bing frowned and sighed.

"Don't bother reversing the original algorithm of Aurora OS. I just checked on the official website of the Intellectual Property Association, and the other party has applied for patent protection." Li Wanqiang suddenly reminded.

"Generational garbage collection is a universal technology. As long as we understand the other party's generational strategy and algorithm logic and launch a similar function group, they will not be able to prove that we copied it."

Lin Bing retorted subconsciously.

"They proposed a new optimization point in adaptive threshold and hybrid GC strategy. The fact that I was able to find it proves that the Intellectual Property Association recognizes Orange Technology's innovation."

Li Wanqiang shook his head and dispelled Lin Bing's thoughts.

"Can we try to continue optimizing and develop a cleaning algorithm similar to Aurora OS?"

After listening to the discussion between the two, Lei Yijun asked.

Li Wanqiang and Lin Bing looked at each other, and finally nodded heavily, deciding to give it a try.

They investigated the R&D team of the Aurora system and found that most of them were R&D personnel from OPPO, Huawei and Meizu, and there were even two engineers poached from Xiaomi.

If they can do it, there’s no reason why you can’t!

At this moment, OPPO's Chen Yongming and Meizu's Huang Zhang also thought so.

One of the two companies is developing Color OS, and the other is developing Flyme OS. They originally felt good about themselves, but when compared with Aurora OS, the gap is immediately apparent.

Smartphones in 2011 had small memory, severe junk fragmentation, and were prone to lag, which was a fatal flaw for young people and was criticized for more than a decade.

Even though Android smartphones no longer lag after both system and hardware upgrades, most people still have a stereotype about Android phones, thinking that they will become laggy after two years of use.

Just as domestic mobile phone manufacturers were catching up with Aurora OS's cleaning algorithm, this flashing trend spread from online to offline.

Whether in first- and second-tier cities or small fourth- and fifth-tier cities, many digital accessories stores have recently added a new business, which is to flash people's mobile phone systems.

The charge for flashing the phone is 10 yuan per unit, and the unscrupulous boss charges 20 yuan.

There are even more ruthless ones who directly offer a high price of 50 yuan.

Although there are flashing tutorials on the Orange official website and the Orange community, there are still information gaps and technical barriers for many people, which has given rise to a large number of flashing parties.

After the download volume of Aurora OS exceeded 1000 million, Chen Yansen stopped paying attention to it.

In mid-June, he spent the entire day on the third floor of the new office area, deeply involved in the appearance and structural design of the Orange phone.

Cao Dahua went out to guide work and has not returned yet.

He and Zuo Hongyu are old partners. After more than 20 days of hard work, the equipment needed for the production line has been basically purchased, including assembly, packaging and testing equipment.

There are a total of 8 production lines, all running at full capacity, with an annual production capacity of 480 to 600 million mobile phones.

The two were busy assembling the production line, and at the same time asked Zhou Jinling to bring the former human resources manager of Ouhan Mobile Phone to the Orange Technology Mobile Phone Factory to prepare for the next round of recruitment.

After all, this person is very familiar with Huaqiangbei and has the contact information of a large number of recruitment agencies. It takes others two or three months to recruit 500 workers, but she can do it in a week.

After listening to Zuo Hongyu's report, Chen Yansen did not question Zhou Jinling's joining Orange Technology. It was just an ordinary worker position.

But the new human resources manager planned to recruit workers through an agency, which he rejected out of hand.

Anyway, the hardware design of the Orange phone has not been completed yet, so it can be recruited through direct recruitment without going through the intermediary recruitment channel.

These days, some agencies sign agreements with factories, whereby wages are first deposited into the agency’s account and then paid out by the agency.

Chen Yansen wondered, since the contracts of the intermediaries and outsourced employees were not under the name of his own company, could he still carry on the torch?

Most likely not!
This is the main reason why he disagrees!

After listening to Chen Yansen's instructions, Zuo Hongyu nodded in agreement even though he felt it was troublesome.

"By the way, the factory's daily working hours must be aligned with yours, implementing an 8-hour work system, and overtime pay will be calculated strictly in accordance with labor laws."

Chen Yansen added one more sentence before hanging up the phone.

"Ah!?" Zuo Hongyu was stunned. He had been in Shenzhen for more than ten years, but he still met such a boss.

The basic salary for workers is 1980 yuan per month, 8 hours a day (including a 2-hour lunch break and meal time). Overtime pay on weekdays is 1.5 times the hourly wage, 2 times on weekends, and 3 times on holidays.

"Boss, if you do this, some workers might rather work overtime until they die than leave."

Zuo Hongyu reminded cautiously.

"You just need to set a daily, weekly, and monthly cap on overtime hours. A good policy depends on its implementation."

Chen Yansen said this briefly and hung up the phone.

The labor cost of a smartphone priced at 2000 yuan is only 6-10 yuan. Even if the salary doubles, it will not affect Orange Technology's profit level.

But tens of millions of manpower expenditures a year can generate thousands of more humanitarian sparks. Once the sales of Orange mobile phones stabilize, it will not be difficult to generate tens of thousands of humanitarian sparks a year.

(End of this chapter)